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To: Soliton
do you deny that the Church burned people at the stake for owning a non-latin bible?

Anyone who was burned, was burned because they were convicted of heresy. "Owning a non-latin bible" is not a heresy and never was.

Do you deny that Catholics, with the approval of the Church, translated the scriptures into English and its predecessor languages beginning in the 8th century?

Do you deny that there were at least 14 Catholic editions of the Bible just in the High German language before Luther?

Do you deny that, in 1480, the Cologne Bible, one of those Catholic versions, contained this paragraph in its prologue:

"All Christians should read the Bible with piety and reverence, praying the Holy Ghost, who is the inspirer of the Scriptures, to enable them to understand . . . The learned should make use of the Latin translation of St. Jerome; but the unlearned and simple folk, whether laymen or clergy . . . should read the German translations now supplied, and thus arm themselves against the enemy of our salvation [i.e. Satan]."

Don't believe everything you've been told.

13 posted on 12/18/2007 2:57:24 PM PST by Campion
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To: Campion

You can have your own beliefs but not your own history.

The Catholic Church murdered people who disagreed with its teachings. This is because the Church had become corrupted and wanted to control the figurative keys to heaven. The Roman Church had interpreted their scripture to fit their narative, primarily to justify Peter as the foundation of the Church in the face of other claims.

It was this hubris that led to the Protestant reformation.


15 posted on 12/18/2007 3:02:12 PM PST by Soliton (Freddie T is the one for me! (c))
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To: Campion

Although there were earlier attempts of an English translation of the Bible, the first whole translation of the Bible into the English language is ascribed to John Wycliffe (1384), who was an English theologian and religious reformer.


19 posted on 12/18/2007 3:04:37 PM PST by Soliton (Freddie T is the one for me! (c))
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To: Campion

Hush before you give away that Gutenberg was Catholic.


59 posted on 12/18/2007 8:23:11 PM PST by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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